Researching Ralph Grey
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6493 people with the Grey surname? In that year Grey was ranked number 630 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Ralph means "Wolf Counselor" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Ralph Grey on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ralph Grey and the Grey Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 4945 people with the Grey surname in the UK? Grey is now ranked number 1192 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Grey surname in the USA? Grey is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
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Ralph Grey (MP)
Ralph William Grey (1819, Earsdon, Northumberland – 1 October 1869, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) was a British Whig politician.
He was the son of Ralph William Grey (died 1822) of Backworth House, Northumberland, and his wife Ann, daughter of Rev. Sir Samuel Jervoise, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, graduating B.A. in 1840. In 1839 he became private secretary to Charles Poulett Thomson, shortly to become Baron Sydenham and the first Governor General of Canada.
At the 1847 general election he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth and North Shields, but in 1852 he narrowly lost the seat to his Conservative opponent, (by 340 votes to 328). He returned to Parliament two years later when he was elected for Liskeard at a by-election in March 1854, and was re-elected at the general elections in 1857 and 1859. He resigned from the House of Commons on 6 August 1859 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.
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